On 22/11/2007, Robert Horning robert_horning@netzero.net wrote:
I'm not suggesting here that some significant improvements to the GFDL can't happen, but I can't even begin to imagine how Linus Torvalds (who is one who has been very vocal about some of the changes to the GPL... in part due to this issue) would react if the FSF went and simply declared that some version of the Creative Commons license suite was in fact "the next version of the GFDL".
It's entirely unclear how that's relevant even by analogy, given that Torvalds' stuff is all GPLv2 and expressly not "or later."
GPL/GFDL compatibility is from my perspective something far more important (and should be important to the FSF) than CC-by-SA/GFDL compatibility, but that is another issue entirely. I certainly don't know how you could get GPL/CC-by-SA compatibility to work at all.
Have you read GPLv3? And how it achieves compatibility with the Apache v2 licence and the AGPL.
I would be amazed if the FSF were as careless as you hypothesise them to be.
- d.